Existence of minimizers for vector problems without quasiconvexity condition

This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions of the problem (P): \(\text{Inf}\bigl\{J(u)\mid(u-u_ 0)\in W^{1,q}_ 0(\Omega;R^ N)\bigr\}\), where \(q\geq 2\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded open subset of \(R^ n\), \(u_ 0\in W^{1,q}(\Omega;R^ N)\) and \(J(u)=\int_ \Omega\bigr\{g(x,Du(x))+f(x,u(x))\bigr\}dx\). We suppose that \(g(x,.)\) is of class \(C^ 2\), that \(g(x,.)\) satisfies a classical growth condition of order \(q\) and \(f\) satisfies suitable estimates. In the case when \(g(x,.)\) is not quasiconvex, the existence result is based on a regularity result for solutions of a convexified problem \((\overline{\text{P}})\): \(\text{Inf}\bigl\{\overline J(u)\mid (u-u_ 0)\in W^{1,q}_ 0(\Omega;R^ N)\bigr\}\), where \(\overline J(u)=\int_ \Omega\bigl\{g^{**}(x,Du(x))+f(x,u(x))\bigr\}dx\) and \(g^{**}(x,.)\) is the biconjugate function of \(g(x,.)\). It is proved that, if the multi-mapping \(x\mapsto\partial_ p g^*(x,p)\) is Lipschitz of rank \(C(| p|^{q'-1}+1)\), then the solutions of \((\overline{\text{P}})\) belong to \(W^{1,nq/(n-2)}_{\text{loc}}\) if \(n>2\) and to \(W^{1,r}_{\text{loc}}\) for every \(r<\infty\) if \(n=2\). Moreover the function \(x\mapsto g^{**}_ v(x,Du(x))\) (where \(u\) is a solution of \((\overline{\text{P}})\) and \(g^{**}_ v\) denotes the partial derivative of \(g^{**})\) belongs to \(W^{1,nq'/(n- 2+q')}_{\text{loc}}(\Omega;R^{nN})\). This last result is used to prove existence of solutions for (P) in the case when \(g^{**}(x,.)\) is affine on the subset \(K(x)=\bigl\{v\in R^{nN}\mid g(x,v)\neq g^{**}(x,v)\bigr\}\).

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